It was a little unusual to design such a large animal, but there was no room for gluing any remaining modeling clay. So i decided to start with the final detailing. Just now i have finished. Tatatata - here is my African elephant bull, about 320 cm high, with about 140 cm long tusks. A splendid guy as i think. I hope you like him too?

Oh, the painting isn't a painting like painters do. It's only a wash with turpentine thinned black oil color on a gray MS base. It was only a luck for me that elephants are coloured in gray overall. But it was my intention to let the tusks in a white shade. They are formed from a plastic profile, i think this is a reason for an interesting contrast in comparison to the skin and lets look the surface like painted intensively.

In addition to the in another occasion already presented Celtic-Iberian pigs was from the time around 300 BC and with a regional clustering in wide areas of northern France and also in central and northern Europe, a further shape of land pigs has been detected. And as in many other matters, the Celts once again have their fingers (or experience) in the pie. Until the 1950s, direct offspring in regional breeds such as the French Craonnaise, the northern German marsh pig or the Saxon Meißner pig lived in greater numbers in the heartland of Europe until they were quickly replaced by high-yielding, economically more interesting breeds. As early as 1870, this fate also befell the "Old English Pig" in the British Isles. From about 1850, the targeted crossbreeding of fertile and fast-growing Asian pig breeds began there, which condemned many older and robust land pigs to extinction.

That happened, though the Celtic-Germanic pig was quite an impressive meat supplier. At a height of about 100 cm and a body length of about two meters, it was a rather large animal. Typical of the Celtic type are the very large, at the root forward broken Lappohren and the strong head with a broad, flat forehead and concave profile.

I also designed 6 copies for this variety of the early domestic pigs.

1. boar, approx. 37"

2. sow, approx. 35"

3. boar, approx. 39"

4. boar, approx. 39"

5. sow, approx. 35"

6. sow, approx. 37"

In comparison to piglets:

In comparison with middle large Celtic-Iberian pigs

In comparison with Wild Boars

Since at times of extensive husbandry (acorn mast in forests and the like) there were again and again mixtures with wild boar and introductions of new varieties in existing stocks as a result of civilization migratory movements, it's possible to arrange diorama scenes for wide stretches of Europe from about the 3rd century BC while using the Celtic-germanic pig in combination with the "Roman pigs" and smaller specimens (up to approx 80 cm) of the wild boar series.

With the next planned groups of 6 "Slavic pasture pigs" and "Wool Pigs" i would like to open soon the possibilities to supply thematically on the settlements of ethnic groups of Slavs in Eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe oriented dioramas with a historically approximately correct livestock of pigs.